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  • Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter

    Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter - Paperback

    Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter - Paperback

    By Alex Pentland

About Alex Pentland Books

Alex "Sandy" Pentland directs MIT's Human Dynamics Laboratory and the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program and co-leads the World Economic Forum Big Data and Personal Data initiatives. He helped create and direct MIT's Media Laboratory, the Media Lab Asia laboratories at the Indian Institutes of Technology, and Strong Hospital's Center for Future Health. His research group and entrepreneurship program have spun off more than thirty companies to date. In 2012 Forbes named Pentland one of the seven most powerful data scientists in the world. His research has been featured in Nature, Science, and Harvard Business Review.